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(11) | EP 0 880 102 A3 |
(12) | EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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(54) | Interoperable workflow management system |
(57) An interoperable workflow management system controls an information disclosing range
of a workflow case to prevent transmission delay even when the communication path
has a small transmission capacity such that cancellation of the case is guaranteed
and the status of processing of the case in its destination can be immediately known.
To implement the system, workflow irrelevant data (166) or pointer information indicating
the data is selectively transmitted to the destination in accordance with the workflow
management system thereof. At cancellation of the case, the irrelevant data is replaced
with canceling data (184). When a request including pointer information for the workflow
irrelevant data is received from the destination system, it is assumed that the workflow
case is in process. |